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Backroom Company cover art

Backroom Company

Hypercent Inc. · 2025-07-29

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 27, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Backroom Company (aka Axiom Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.

79%
positive of 579 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 154% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 579 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.74 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620242026Week of 2024-10-28: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-10-28: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-04: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-08-11: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-18: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-15: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-22: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-29: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-17: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-17: 31 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$6.742024-10-282026-08-142024-10-28 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $8.492024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $8.292025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-01-16 — best price $7.992025-01-30 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-04-03 — best price $7.492025-04-17 — best price $9.992025-04-18 — best price $8.992025-05-21 — best price $8.092025-06-04 — best price $8.992025-06-27 — best price $8.092025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-07-30 — best price $7.642025-08-12 — best price $8.992025-09-29 — best price $7.642025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-10-27 — best price $7.642025-11-03 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $7.642026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-03-19 — best price $7.192026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-05-17 — best price $7.192026-05-31 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $6.742026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-31 — best price $6.742026-08-14 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
64.7%
earned "The Host"
17.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support

10 supported languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1463%85

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DCo-opHorrorFarmingMysteryZombiesThrillerAdventureDark HumorDark Comedy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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